From the Mountains above the Applegate River

“They say” that Valentine's Day is a "made-up"  holiday,  created by Hallmark and other merchants to fill the gap between Ch...

            As I walked into a shop in the valley yesterday, the saleswoman said to me, pleasantly, "Isn't it a beautiful day?...

               The Applegate fires of last summer burned on some of my favorite trails. Remembering a hike through a burn  in   southern Or...

           Making a black-bottom banana cream pie for lunch with friends, I plunged head-first into imaginary participation in the Gr...